The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-12

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w. Barney; ticket clerk, l.. NJ. Taylor;
chief engineer, Captain George Rushlow;
captains, Captain George Rushlow of the
| Vermont Captain Il. j. Baldwin of the Will
Jams, Captain J. H. Manvile of the Hori-
con and Captain Richard Arbuckle of the
Reeves and j. b. Davis; pilots, Il. r. Rock
well of the Vermont, William w. Rockwell
of the Williams, w. Warren Rockwell of
the Horizon, Wesley Finkle of the T'con-
deroga. 1t was voted to go on with the
| construction of the new steel steamer, to
take the place of the steamer Williams, and
have her ready for the season of 1888.
In General.
SEVERE cold weather in Texas.
PARLIAMENT will meet January q.
THE population of France is 3S,21S,903.
ALICE OATES, the comic opera singer, is
dead.
PRINCE ALEXANDER is to make tour of
the East.
THE Presidents health and strength are
returning.
DECREASE of public debt in December,
! S9,35S, 202.
MORE earthquake shocks in South Car
Dina last week.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake at Paige,
| Texas, last week.
ANOTHER slight shock of earthquake in
| Charleston Monday.
| THE town. of Duck Creek, Texas, is
burned; loss 100000.
REMARKABLY heavy rain and snow-storms
in italy are reported.
THE coolest in Maine last week was at
| Milo--i0o below zero.
SERGEANT BALLANTINE, the well-known
| English counsel, is dead
MALIGNANT cholera is carrying off many
persons at Buenos Ayres'
Hustled, republican, was elected speaker
OF the New YORK assembly.
THE Florida orange-growers say the fruit
has not been seriously hurt.
A BIG wheat elevator in Minneapolis
burst, killing several persons
BENJAMIN f. BROOKS, a prominent com
merclal lawyer OF Boston, Is dead.
THE loss by fire in the Odescalchi Palace,
Rome, is estimated at S1,OOO,OOO
THREE children of Mauri, a Brooklyn
druggist, have died OF smallpox.
| FIVE colored Baptist missionaries have
sailed from New YORK Tor Africa
THIRTY-sEvEN persons were killed in a
mine explosion at Mons, Belgium.
AT the funeral of Bishop Potter in New
| York 45O clerpymen were present
crsrpn Too,v,s remsins will finally ba
| buried in one of the Chicago parks
| cno,orw C,,,ns ooyo ouo, COZ 900 In
varions charities On christmas dav
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,ost u,aai, IN Mrs Holt of Hannn 90 mo-
''',p "ooN w - 80,
Anpt ~ Pni;, vas Mi'i 49, 'e'-
'o'9o az 'iio ioi'i" noI'o9'0a' sai'en'
MANY cattie anu n0gs were frozen 10
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a MONTREAL paper says the Granu IruhK
VIII soon nave connection with Duluth
Two coasters were killed Lee ana another PROB
aoiy FATALLY injured aU wentworth N H.
A MONUMENT is to be erected to Garibaldi
on the oahicuiuhl al nome, 10 cosV @zoo,ooV'
THREE of the Adams Express robbers
We're sentenced at ST. Louis to state prison.
THE Hoosac tunnel and railroad has been
sold to the F1tchburg railroad for SlO,OOO,OOO.
THE wheat harvest in Victoria is II 100000
bushels, an average OF II bushels per acre.
RUSSIA has made certain suggestions look
| ing to settlement of the Bulgarian question
TURKEY is believed to have joined Ger
many and Russia in a common Balkan policy.
THE post-office and other buildings at
North Grafton, Mass, were burned last
week.
Ir turns out that Senator Logan had S3O,-
600 worth of unincumbered property in
Illinois.
NEW movements looking to disruption
OF peace are reported from several European
capitals.
CONGRESSMAN REED, the defaulter of the
fifth North Carolina district, has resigned
his seat.
A YOUNG Italian named Vincenzo, with a
charming mezzo-soprano voice, has appeared
! in Paris.
HEAVY snow-falls have occurred in Vir-
ginia, Washington, Georgia and South
Carolina.
Mrs. EVA MANsEy, aged twenty-three, OF
Laconia, n H., fell on the ice and broke
| her back
A earle snecial saws the recent story of a
secret treaty between Russia and Germany
is contradicted.
A rnp,o,,r conductor and brakeman were
killed i'm a collision of freight trains near
Lenape. Pa, Sunday.
E,rrv-s,x C,arricorde nre,and, roters
were sentenced to twelve or eighteen
months IMPRISONMENT.
1,,,, Ave- lihror,, IN tho Aloozar na,aoe Of
MI NJ 60 90 hmrnad Sundaw nd
several nersons nerished.
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enpioylnene ny sor ifs. III .,ie "i'Ao''"ii
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"A Young woman au LAKE TeoiEe, y, ID,
was shot ana killed by pis,ol III the hahus
Oh poy' VINO aiiheu ~ ao uos'
SPECIALS from AIcauia, FARMER N1l vllie aIiu
Mihueh, La, report cn Wv hea, les. sho" SUI IL
ever experienced al those PLACES.
IT is declared that 5000 criminals are al
| large in New York city because there are